Manufacturing Engineer, Amazon Leo

Amazon • Redmond, WA

21h • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite network, aiming to deliver fast, reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of existing networks, including households, schools, hospitals, businesses, and government agencies. The company is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer to lead production development for a Line Replaceable Unit. This role involves direct responsibility for the production process development, introduction, improvement, and maintenance of a key module on Amazon Leo's next-generation spacecraft. The Manufacturing Engineer will serve as the leading technical voice for a team of manufacturing engineers, addressing complex technical challenges in delivering ultra-high-performing optical, electrical, and mechatronic modules for space. This position acts as a crucial link between design/development, factory operations, quality engineering, and program management, driving manufacturing processes from initial production introduction to full-rate production. The engineer will leverage systems design expertise to collaborate on future system iterations, sub-assembly designs, and associated production test systems and tooling. The role also involves solving complex industrial challenges by balancing production velocity, exceptional quality, and cost-competitive production concepts, while ensuring smooth technical execution of current production operations. A key aspect of the role is increasing production capacity through strategic vision and execution of capital investment for production scaling and automation.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, material science, physics or equivalent
• 2+ years of hardware design and validation of components, subsystems and systems experience
• Familiarity with Low-Rate Manufacturing Environments & New Product Introduction
• Knowledge of Lean manufacturing practices & principles
• Experience with Root Cause Analysis Techniques such as Fishbone, Fault Tree, DMAIC, or related technologies/processes

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations

Responsibilities

• Conceptualize, design, develop, and improve production processes (assembly, integration, test processes) through collaboration/leadership of a team of manufacturing engineers.
• Serve as primary technical interface to development team, participating as the lead technical voice from the factory in Design Reviews, key technical escalations, and new product development activities.
• Support operations team directly by being a high solving power engineer, capable of bringing multiple diverging technical perspectives together in high pressure escalation moments such as quality containments.
• Own the capacity increase roadmap for production including defining the relevant capital equipment required for rate increase and helping to lead the design, procurement, install, and qualification of new rate enabling equipment.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior